Giovanni Battista Montini è stato un protagonista della vita della Chiesa e dell’Italia nel Novecento. Nel suo itinerario, l’episcopato a Milano – dal 1954 al 1963 – rappresenta una tappa cruciale nella biografia di colui che sarebbe diventato papa Paolo VI. Il volume, sulla base di un’ampia documentazione, ricostruisce il progetto pastorale di Montini negli anni in cui Milano, sotto la spinta di una tumultuosa modernizzazione, conosceva una profonda trasformazione socioculturale. La metropoli – dove tradizione cattolica e civiltà industriale s’intrecciavano in modo inedito - poneva la sfida dell’“irreligiosità”, un problema nuovo, da affrontare in chiave pastorale e non politico, come invece molti continuavano a fare, portando la Chiesa verso persone e realtà “lontane”, a cominciare dalle fabbriche e dalle tante periferie. Missione e “senso religioso”, “simpatia” nei confronti dei contemporanei e ricerca di una nuova coesione spirituale della società, costituiscono elementi portanti della proposta montiniana. Consapevole della crisi religiosa europea, Montini guardò anche oltre l’Europa, maturando negli anni del Concilio Vaticano II la convinzione che la Chiesa avrebbe svolto la sua missione solo in un confronto continuo e vitale con le diverse espressioni del mondo contemporaneo.

Giovanni Battista Montini was a protagonist in the life of the Church and of Italy in the twentieth century. In his itinerary, the episcopate in Milan - from 1954 to 1963 - represents a crucial stage in the biography of the man who would become Pope Paul VI. The volume, on the basis of extensive documentation, reconstructs Montini's pastoral project in the years in which Milan, under the pressure of tumultuous modernization, experienced a profound socio-cultural transformation. The metropolis - where Catholic tradition and industrial civilization intertwined in an unprecedented way - posed the challenge of "irreligiosity", a new problem, to be addressed in a pastoral and not political key, as many continued to do, bringing the Church towards people and "distant" realities, starting with the factories and the many suburbs. Mission and "religious sense", "sympathy" towards contemporaries and the search for a new spiritual cohesion of society, constitute key elements of Montini's proposal. Aware of the European religious crisis, Montini also looked beyond Europe, developing in the years of the Second Vatican Council the conviction that the Church would carry out its mission only in a continuous and vital comparison with the different expressions of the contemporary world.

Del Zanna, G. A., Montini a Milano. 1954-1963, Il Mulino, BOLOGNA -- ITA 2023: 352 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/269916]

Montini a Milano. 1954-1963

Del Zanna, Giorgio Aldo
2023

Abstract

Giovanni Battista Montini was a protagonist in the life of the Church and of Italy in the twentieth century. In his itinerary, the episcopate in Milan - from 1954 to 1963 - represents a crucial stage in the biography of the man who would become Pope Paul VI. The volume, on the basis of extensive documentation, reconstructs Montini's pastoral project in the years in which Milan, under the pressure of tumultuous modernization, experienced a profound socio-cultural transformation. The metropolis - where Catholic tradition and industrial civilization intertwined in an unprecedented way - posed the challenge of "irreligiosity", a new problem, to be addressed in a pastoral and not political key, as many continued to do, bringing the Church towards people and "distant" realities, starting with the factories and the many suburbs. Mission and "religious sense", "sympathy" towards contemporaries and the search for a new spiritual cohesion of society, constitute key elements of Montini's proposal. Aware of the European religious crisis, Montini also looked beyond Europe, developing in the years of the Second Vatican Council the conviction that the Church would carry out its mission only in a continuous and vital comparison with the different expressions of the contemporary world.
2023
Italiano
Monografia o trattato scientifico
Il Mulino
Del Zanna, G. A., Montini a Milano. 1954-1963, Il Mulino, BOLOGNA -- ITA 2023: 352 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/269916]
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